re: Need advice - coaching a 9-10 Y.O. baseball team

Get those Fred McGriff hitting videos...

That's a tough age. You are still very much learning fundamentals - especially with kids pitching and kids hitting a kid pitching. Most umps have a YUGE strike zone at that age, otherwise, you would have nothing but walks.

Get some parents to help. Focus on fundamentals. Try to get the kids to hit, run, and field (and for some, pitch) at every practice.

I've coached my daughters who are younger than 9-10, and I really try to focus on skill development. Most practices, especially early on we warm up, then divide the kids into three groups, and have each group do a station for about 10 min, then bring the team together for a team session.

So we might have some kids working on fielding, others on hitting, and others on throwing. They rotate through the groups. They come together, and we'll have each kid hit a few balls while everyone else is in the field, and then we'll end with baserunning.

This of course means you will have to have assistant coaches to help.